XFactor Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in New York City. The firm invests in companies with at least one female founder pursuing billion-dollar market opportunities across healthcare, fintech, SaaS, enterprise software, consumer, e-commerce, and biotech & life sciences sectors.
Their most common stage is seed (47% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $4.1M (across 26 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
27
Fund Size
$8.6M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
Anna Palmer
Co-Founder & Managing Partner,Boston Unity Soccer Partners
Betsy Fore
Founding Partner, Velveteen Ventures
Aihui Ong
General Partner, Transform Capital Former Founder and CEO, EdgiLife/Love With Food
Aubrie Pagano
General Partner,Alpaca VC
Chip Hazard
General Partner,Flybridge Capital Partners
Erica Brescia
Managing Director,Redpoint Ventures
Nicole Sanchez
Managing Director,Chase
Amanda Bradford
Co-Founder & CEO,The League
Danielle (Elle) Morrill
Co-Founder & CEO,Groupthink
Felicia Curcuru
Co-Founder/CEO Binti
Heather Hasson
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, FIGS
Jilliene Helman
Co-Founder & CEO, RealtyMogul
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
Portfolio
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 booby biome | Seed | — | Sep 2025 |
 PlantBaby | Seed | — | Feb 2025 |
 Buildstock | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | Jan 2024 |
| VVidoc Security Lab | Unknown | $2.4M | Jan 2024 |
| VVidoc | Unknown | $2.4M | Jan 2024 |
 Buildstock | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | Jan 2024 |
 AUGGIE | Seed | $1.7M | Aug 2023 |
 itselectric | Pre-Seed | $2.2M | Mar 2023 |
| VVidoc Security Lab | Pre-Seed | — | Jan 2023 |
 Ceremonia | Series A | $10M | Jan 2023 |
 POD FOODS | Series A | $13M | Dec 2021 |
 Shiru | Series A | $17M | Oct 2021 |
 Venus Aerospace | Seed | $3M | Mar 2021 |
| Ceremonia | Seed | $2M | Jan 2021 |
| Ceremonia | Pre-Seed | — | Oct 2020 |
| Ceremonia | Pre-Seed | $1M | Jan 2020 |
 Balloonr, Inc. | Seed | $2.1M | Dec 2019 |
 Balloon | Seed | $2.1M | Dec 2019 |
 Give InKind | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | Nov 2019 |
 Zubale | Seed | $4.4M | Oct 2019 |
 Chief | Seed | $3M | Jan 2019 |
 Choosy | Seed | $5.4M | May 2018 |
 Diem | Seed | $5M | — |
 Fairly AI | Pre-Seed | $1.7M | — |
 POW Bio | Series A | $9.5M | — |
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Last updated: 7 October 2026